People Share The Most Rampant Modern-Day Scams That We Have Subconsciously Normalized To The Point That They Aren't Technically Scams Anymore

So many hidden fees, it's absurd.

Sophia

• Published in Funny
• July 30, 2022

Reaching adulthood has really led us to realize that the world is just a big ball of systems within systems and that our society only functions well because of certain conditions established by our civilization. Anywhere we go, there are certain systems and rules that we have to follow, and even if these things vary in different countries, they are still systems and rules, all the same.

When we enter a grocery store, products are marked with prices, and the prices of what we chose are tabulated together when we arrive at the cashier—that is already a form of system. Buying something online is also a prime example of that.

But the difference between buying in an actual store and buying online is that we are much more prone to scams with the latter. Fraud has always been looming in our society, and whether we purchase something online or not, there are always a lot of ways that people have come up to fool people into giving them more money than needed.

Come to think of it, scamming also operates on a system. And sometimes, some acts of scamming have made their way into mainstream society that it has become well blended with the systems we use in our daily life.

Unfortunately, it does not seem like scamming would go away any time soon—not without fully coercing us to think that it's perfectly normal to do certain kinds of things, like the ones mentioned in this Reddit thread for example. Scroll down to see the highlights below!

A Reddit user by the name u/Diligent-Log6805 posted a question under the r/AskReddit subcommunity, asking about modern-day scams that have been so normalized in our society to the point that they aren't considered scams anymore. As expected, the people of Reddit delivered!

1. And then you find out your co-workers are getting paid more than you... for doing the same job, every hour, every day.

2. Hidden fees should really be illegal!

3. Yep, what a smart way to push people to feed their retail addiction.

4. Having the easy option to subscribe but when you decide to cut it all off, they will give you a hard time to make you hesitate if it was all worth the hassle

5. Applies to gym memberships as well

6. We miss the days when we could just pay for a software right then and there instead of having to pay every damn year

7. Again with the hidden fees!

8. They have such tiny 'unsubscribe' buttons in emails, too!

9. Online transaction fees are really getting too expensive

10. Health insurances are sometimes more of a hassle than a benefit, but it's still important to have one

11. Miscellaneous fees, too, for things you don't even use

12. It's really a gamble especially when you tend to be forgetful

13. Can't we just pay one time?

14. The never-ending scams of subscriptions

15. And we can't do anything about it, unfortunately

16. Sometimes, it also helps reading the full Terms and Conditions

17. It's not only online shopping platforms, a lot of department stores tend to do this, too

18. Almost everything in tech, basically

19. It was never a win-win!

Scams are becoming a lot more sophisticated now, and at this time, we really can't distinguish what's not a scam anymore because money is what really drives people to continue to do these things. That being said, we still must be wary of people, especially online, trying to take advantage of our money and naivety.

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Sophia